A fan found the exact moment when Robert De Niro's movies became disappointing

On the whole, Robert De Niro's acting career has been
illustrious, bolstered by two Academy Awards and a string of
great roles in classic movies.

But after a certain point, his roles in numerous critical
catastrophes, like this year's
"Dirty Grandpa," have seemed to point toward a trend that
many moviegoers have quietly noted for years: It seems as if
Robert De Niro has stopped caring about the films he appears in.

This is the driving sentiment behind a humorous chart created by
Twitter user James Chapman. The chart graphs the Rotten
Tomatoes scores for all of the movies De Niro has appeared in
over the course of his 48-year career and concludes that the
actor "stopped caring" after the release of his 2002 film
"Showtime."

People say data analysis is boring, but you can calculate the exact moment that Robert De Niro stopped caring (2002) pic.twitter.com/LQRI48SnPU

As one
Reddit user points out, Chapman's graph mistakenly labels all
Rotten Tomatoes scores above 50% as "fresh," when, in fact, only
movies with a critical response of 60% or above are given that
designation.

So the year De Niro actually stopped caring was 1998,
following his appearance in Quentin Tarantino's critically
acclaimed crime thriller "Jackie Brown."

Either way, we're hoping that De Niro's future in film includes
more "Silver Linings Playbook"-like movies and less "Little
Fockers."